Mini Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella Book Review
Written by Olivia Richardson: 02-September-2010
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Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) thought motherhood would be a breeze and that having a daughter was a dream come true – a shopping friend for life! But it’s trickier than she thought – two-year-old Minnie has a quite different approach to shopping.
She can create havoc everywhere from Harrods to Harvey Nicks to her own christening. She hires taxis at random, her favourite word is ‘Mine‘, and she’s even started bidding for designer bags on ebay.
On top of everything else, there’s a big financial crisis. People are having to Cut Back – including all of Becky’s personal shopping clients – and she and Luke are still living with Becky’s Mum and Dad. To cheer everyone up, Becky decides to throw a surprise birthday party – on a budget – but then things become really complicated.
Who will end up on the naughty step, who will get a gold star and will Becky’s secret wishes come true?
Review
I loved this book! It’s the biggest and longest of the series (392 pages and about 25cm tall – similar size to Twenties Girl).
The beginning was a little cliché – all about designer clothes and bags but a little over the top – I mean who really buys all that, unless you’re Katie Holmes and Posh Spice? And Dolce and Gabbana for their 2-year-old? It seemed a little too much actually – I wish Sophie would write about Becky buying things in general more, not only about the most expensive clothes around, all the time (Valentino, Prada, etc. etc. Barf. It just makes me sick – thousands of dollars on clothes as if it’s nothing) and I could put the book down… until from about page 40. Then I couldn’t stop!
The writing’s witty, funny (I laughed out loud heaps) and typical Sophie Kinsella (fab).
The title and cute cover image had me thinking it would be more about her daughter, Minnie, but she was only the focus for about 1/6 of the book in total! It should really be called ‘Shopaholic Plans (& Stresses About) a Party’, because that’s what it’s pretty much about.
Sophie writes in such a suspense- and comical-filled way and had me peeking near the end pages to see if a certain thing happened or not – the way she created suspense.
And great news for Sophie Kinsella fans – the ending sounds like there’ll be at least another book in the series :–)
5 / 5.